14-letter words containing a, s, u, m, i
- hippopotamuses — Plural form of hippopotamus.
- home insurance — Home insurance is insurance coverage for your home, its contents, and your possessions.
- housing market — property trade
- human interest — a quality of a story or report, as in a newspaper or on a newscast, that engages attention and sympathy by enabling one to identify readily with the people, problems, and situations described.
- humane society — (often initial capital letter) an organization devoted to promoting humane ideals, especially with reference to the treatment of animals.
- humane studies — educational subjects or courses, or texts, that are, or were historically, considered to have a civilizing influence on those who read or studied them
- humanistically — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- humoristically — In a humoristic way.
- hypermasculine — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
- hyperstimulate — to stimulate excessively
- hyperuricemias — Plural form of hyperuricemia.
- ice-cream suit — a man's lightweight summer suit of white or a finely striped or solid pastel color.
- Îles marquises — a group of volcanic islands in the S Pacific, in French Polynesia. Pop: 8712 (2002). Area: 1287 sq km (497 sq miles)
- immaculateness — The characteristic of being immaculate; spotlessness.
- immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
- implausibility — not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
- incommensurate — not commensurate; disproportionate; inadequate: Our income is incommensurate to our wants.
- indian mustard — leaf mustard.
- inharmoniously — In an inharmonious way.
- instrumentally — By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end.
- insurmountable — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- insurmountably — incapable of being surmounted, passed over, or overcome; insuperable: an insurmountable obstacle.
- intermenstrual — Between menstrual periods.
- intransmutable — incapable of being transmuted into another substance
- intuitionalism — intuitionism.
- isthmus of kra — an isthmus of SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand: the narrowest part of the Malay Peninsula. Width: about 56 km (35 miles)
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- karnatak music — the classical music of South India
- kings mountain — a ridge in N South Carolina: American victory over the British 1780.
- linear measure — any system for measuring length.
- liquid compass — wet compass.
- liquid measure — the system of units of capacity ordinarily used in measuring liquid commodities, as milk or oil. English system: 4 gills = 1 pint; 2 pints = 1 quart; 4 quarts = 1 gallon. Metric system: 1000 milliliters = 1 liter; 1000 liters = 1 kiloliter (= 1 cubic meter).
- luminous paint — paint containing a phosphor that emits visible light when irradiated with ultraviolet light.
- luminous range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible in clear weather, disregarding interference from obstructions and from the curvature of the earth and depending on the power of the light.
- lunatic asylum — psychiatric hospital
- macroglobulins — Plural form of macroglobulin.
- macronutrients — Plural form of macronutrient.
- madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
- magic mushroom — a mushroom, Psilocybe mexicana, of Mexico and the southwestern U.S., containing the hallucinogen psilocybin.
- make-up artist — sb: applies performers' cosmetics
- malnourishment — Malnutrition, undernourishment.
- malpighiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical plants many of which are lianas
- manual testing — (testing) That part of software testing that requires human input, analysis, or evaluation.
- margaritaceous — resembling mother-of-pearl; pearly.
- marital status — whether or not one is married
- marsupial bone — epipubis.
- marsupial mole — a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.
- master builder — a play (1892) by Ibsen.
- mastigophorous — carrying a cane or whip
- material cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?